The Colour of Magic is a wonderful and faithful adaptation of the first novel in the Discworld series, the series critics have said does for fantasy what Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy did for science fiction.

Imagine a flat world, sitting on the backs of four elephants, who hurtle through space on the back of a giant turtle. That's the setting of writer Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. This is the bizarre adventure of Rincewind the wizard and Twoflower, Discworld's first tourist. All Twoflower wants is to see the city and take lots of pictures and meet great heroes. All Rincewind wants is to flee the city with Twoflower's gold. But he can't. The city's ruler has threatened the wizard with fates worse than death unless he acts as Twoflower's tour guide. So he must protect the naïve Twoflower from brigands, thugs, magic attacks, and quite possibly Death himself.